As both locks are highly contended during significant inode churn, holding the inode hash lock while waiting for the sb list lock exacerbates the problem. Why moving it out is safe: the inode at hand still has I_NEW set and anyone who finds it through legitimate means waits for the bit to clear, by which time inode_sb_list_add() is guaranteed to have finished. This significantly drops hash lock contention for me when stating 20 separate trees in parallel, each with 1000 directories * 1000 files. However, no speed up was observed as contention increased on the other locks, notably dentry LRU. Even so, removal of the lock ordering will help making this faster later. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250320004643.1903287-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
While this may sound like a pedantic clean up, it does in fact impact code generation -- the patched add routine is slightly smaller. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319004635.1820589-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The unhashed state check in __wait_on_freeing_inode() performed with ->i_lock held against remove_hash_inode() also holding the lock makes another lock acquire in evict() completely spurious -- all potential sleepers already dropped the lock before remove_hash_inode() acquired it or they found the inode to be unhashed and aborted. Note there is no trickery here: the usual cost of both sides taking locks is still being paid, it just stops being paid twice. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250317160707.1694135-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The function can be replaced by evict_inodes. The only difference is that evict_inodes() skips the inodes with positive refcount without touching ->i_lock, but they are equivalent as evict_inodes() repeats the refcount check after having grabbed ->i_lock. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250307144318.28120-2-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The former is a no-op wrapper with the same argument. I left it in place to not lose the information who needs it -- one day "pseudo" inodes may start differing from what alloc_inode() returns. In the meantime no point taking a detour. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250212180459.1022983-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Small collection of macros taken from mmdebug.h Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250209185523.745956-2-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.
Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.
Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
virtual patch
@
depends on !(file in "net")
disable optional_qualifier
@
identifier table_name != {
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
iwcm_ctl_table,
ucma_ctl_table,
memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table
};
@@
+ const
struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };
sed:
sed --in-place \
-e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \
kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- The series "zram: optimal post-processing target selection" from
Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram's post-processing selection
algorithm. This leads to improved memory savings.
- Wei Yang has gone to town on the mapletree code, contributing several
series which clean up the implementation:
- "refine mas_mab_cp()"
- "Reduce the space to be cleared for maple_big_node"
- "maple_tree: simplify mas_push_node()"
- "Following cleanup after introduce mas_wr_store_type()"
- "refine storing null"
- The series "selftests/mm: hugetlb_fault_after_madv improvements" from
David Hildenbrand fixes this selftest for s390.
- The series "introduce pte_offset_map_{ro|rw}_nolock()" from Qi Zheng
implements some rationaizations and cleanups in the page mapping
code.
- The series "mm: optimize shadow entries removal" from Shakeel Butt
optimizes the file truncation code by speeding up the handling of
shadow entries.
- The series "Remove PageKsm()" from Matthew Wilcox completes the
migration of this flag over to being a folio-based flag.
- The series "Unify hugetlb into arch_get_unmapped_area functions" from
Oscar Salvador implements a bunch of consolidations and cleanups in
the hugetlb code.
- The series "Do not shatter hugezeropage on wp-fault" from Dev Jain
takes away the wp-fault time practice of turning a huge zero page
into small pages. Instead we replace the whole thing with a THP. More
consistent cleaner and potentiall saves a large number of pagefaults.
- The series "percpu: Add a test case and fix for clang" from Andy
Shevchenko enhances and fixes the kernel's built in percpu test code.
- The series "mm/mremap: Remove extra vma tree walk" from Liam Howlett
optimizes mremap() by avoiding doing things which we didn't need to
do.
- The series "Improve the tmpfs large folio read performance" from
Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to copy data into userspace at the folio
size rather than as individual pages. A 20% speedup was observed.
- The series "mm/damon/vaddr: Fix issue in
damon_va_evenly_split_region()" fro Zheng Yejian fixes DAMON
splitting.
- The series "memcg-v1: fully deprecate charge moving" from Shakeel
Butt removes the long-deprecated memcgv2 charge moving feature.
- The series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor" from
Lorenzo Stoakes cleanup up some of the mmap() error handling and
addresses some potential performance issues.
- The series "x86/module: use large ROX pages for text allocations"
from Mike Rapoport teaches x86 to use large pages for
read-only-execute module text.
- The series "page allocation tag compression" from Suren Baghdasaryan
is followon maintenance work for the new page allocation profiling
feature.
- The series "page->index removals in mm" from Matthew Wilcox remove
most references to page->index in mm/. A slow march towards shrinking
struct page.
- The series "damon/{self,kunit}tests: minor fixups for DAMON debugfs
interface tests" from Andrew Paniakin performs maintenance work for
DAMON's self testing code.
- The series "mm: zswap swap-out of large folios" from Kanchana Sridhar
improves zswap's batching of compression and decompression. It is a
step along the way towards using Intel IAA hardware acceleration for
this zswap operation.
- The series "kasan: migrate the last module test to kunit" from
Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov completes the migration of the KASAN built-in
tests over to the KUnit framework.
- The series "implement lightweight guard pages" from Lorenzo Stoakes
permits userapace to place fault-generating guard pages within a
single VMA, rather than requiring that multiple VMAs be created for
this. Improved efficiencies for userspace memory allocators are
expected.
- The series "memcg: tracepoint for flushing stats" from JP Kobryn uses
tracepoints to provide increased visibility into memcg stats flushing
activity.
- The series "zram: IDLE flag handling fixes" from Sergey Senozhatsky
fixes a zram buglet which potentially affected performance.
- The series "mm: add more kernel parameters to control mTHP" from
Maíra Canal enhances our ability to control/configuremultisize THP
from the kernel boot command line.
- The series "kasan: few improvements on kunit tests" from Sabyrzhan
Tasbolatov has a couple of fixups for the KASAN KUnit tests.
- The series "mm/list_lru: Split list_lru lock into per-cgroup scope"
from Kairui Song optimizes list_lru memory utilization when lockdep
is enabled.
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-11-18-19-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (215 commits)
cma: enforce non-zero pageblock_order during cma_init_reserved_mem()
mm/kfence: add a new kunit test test_use_after_free_read_nofault()
zram: fix NULL pointer in comp_algorithm_show()
memcg/hugetlb: add hugeTLB counters to memcg
vmstat: call fold_vm_zone_numa_events() before show per zone NUMA event
mm: mmap_lock: check trace_mmap_lock_$type_enabled() instead of regcount
zram: ZRAM_DEF_COMP should depend on ZRAM
MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: add document files for mm
Docs/mm/damon: recommend academic papers to read and/or cite
mm: define general function pXd_init()
kmemleak: iommu/iova: fix transient kmemleak false positive
mm/list_lru: simplify the list_lru walk callback function
mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope
mm/list_lru: simplify reparenting and initial allocation
mm/list_lru: code clean up for reparenting
mm/list_lru: don't export list_lru_add
mm/list_lru: don't pass unnecessary key parameters
kasan: add kunit tests for kmalloc_track_caller, kmalloc_node_track_caller
kasan: change kasan_atomics kunit test as KUNIT_CASE_SLOW
kasan: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT to export symbols
...
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Features:
- Fixup and improve NLM and kNFSD file lock callbacks
Last year both GFS2 and OCFS2 had some work done to make their
locking more robust when exported over NFS. Unfortunately, part of
that work caused both NLM (for NFS v3 exports) and kNFSD (for
NFSv4.1+ exports) to no longer send lock notifications to clients
This in itself is not a huge problem because most NFS clients will
still poll the server in order to acquire a conflicted lock
It's important for NLM and kNFSD that they do not block their
kernel threads inside filesystem's file_lock implementations
because that can produce deadlocks. We used to make sure of this by
only trusting that posix_lock_file() can correctly handle blocking
lock calls asynchronously, so the lock managers would only setup
their file_lock requests for async callbacks if the filesystem did
not define its own lock() file operation
However, when GFS2 and OCFS2 grew the capability to correctly
handle blocking lock requests asynchronously, they started
signalling this behavior with EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK, and the check
for also trusting posix_lock_file() was inadvertently dropped, so
now most filesystems no longer produce lock notifications when
exported over NFS
Fix this by using an fop_flag which greatly simplifies the problem
and grooms the way for future uses by both filesystems and lock
managers alike
- Add a sysctl to delete the dentry when a file is removed instead of
making it a negative dentry
Commit 681ce8623567 ("vfs: Delete the associated dentry when
deleting a file") introduced an unconditional deletion of the
associated dentry when a file is removed. However, this led to
performance regressions in specific benchmarks, such as
ilebench.sum_operations/s, prompting a revert in commit
4a4be1ad3a6e ("Revert "vfs: Delete the associated dentry when
deleting a file""). This reintroduces the concept conditionally
through a sysctl
- Expand the statmount() system call:
* Report the filesystem subtype in a new fs_subtype field to
e.g., report fuse filesystem subtypes
* Report the superblock source in a new sb_source field
* Add a new way to return filesystem specific mount options in an
option array that returns filesystem specific mount options
separated by zero bytes and unescaped. This allows caller's to
retrieve filesystem specific mount options and immediately pass
them to e.g., fsconfig() without having to unescape or split
them
* Report security (LSM) specific mount options in a separate
security option array. We don't lump them together with
filesystem specific mount options as security mount options are
generic and most users aren't interested in them
The format is the same as for the filesystem specific mount
option array
- Support relative paths in fsconfig()'s FSCONFIG_SET_STRING command
- Optimize acl_permission_check() to avoid costly {g,u}id ownership
checks if possible
- Use smp_mb__after_spinlock() to avoid full smp_mb() in evict()
- Add synchronous wakeup support for ep_poll_callback.
Currently, epoll only uses wake_up() to wake up task. But sometimes
there are epoll users which want to use the synchronous wakeup flag
to give a hint to the scheduler, e.g., the Android binder driver.
So add a wake_up_sync() define, and use wake_up_sync() when sync is
true in ep_poll_callback()
Fixes:
- Fix kernel documentation for inode_insert5() and iget5_locked()
- Annotate racy epoll check on file->f_ep
- Make F_DUPFD_QUERY associative
- Avoid filename buffer overrun in initramfs
- Don't let statmount() return empty strings
- Add a cond_resched() to dump_user_range() to avoid hogging the CPU
- Don't query the device logical blocksize multiple times for hfsplus
- Make filemap_read() check that the offset is positive or zero
Cleanups:
- Various typo fixes
- Cleanup wbc_attach_fdatawrite_inode()
- Add __releases annotation to wbc_attach_and_unlock_inode()
- Add hugetlbfs tracepoints
- Fix various vfs kernel doc parameters
- Remove obsolete TODO comment from io_cancel()
- Convert wbc_account_cgroup_owner() to take a folio
- Fix comments for BANDWITH_INTERVAL and wb_domain_writeout_add()
- Reorder struct posix_acl to save 8 bytes
- Annotate struct posix_acl with __counted_by()
- Replace one-element array with flexible array member in freevxfs
- Use idiomatic atomic64_inc_return() in alloc_mnt_ns()"
* tag 'vfs-6.13.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits)
statmount: retrieve security mount options
vfs: make evict() use smp_mb__after_spinlock instead of smp_mb
statmount: add flag to retrieve unescaped options
fs: add the ability for statmount() to report the sb_source
writeback: wbc_attach_fdatawrite_inode out of line
writeback: add a __releases annoation to wbc_attach_and_unlock_inode
fs: add the ability for statmount() to report the fs_subtype
fs: don't let statmount return empty strings
fs:aio: Remove TODO comment suggesting hash or array usage in io_cancel()
hfsplus: don't query the device logical block size multiple times
freevxfs: Replace one-element array with flexible array member
fs: optimize acl_permission_check()
initramfs: avoid filename buffer overrun
fs/writeback: convert wbc_account_cgroup_owner to take a folio
acl: Annotate struct posix_acl with __counted_by()
acl: Realign struct posix_acl to save 8 bytes
epoll: Add synchronous wakeup support for ep_poll_callback
coredump: add cond_resched() to dump_user_range
mm/page-writeback.c: Fix comment of wb_domain_writeout_add()
mm/page-writeback.c: Update comment for BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL
...
Pull vfs multigrain timestamps from Christian Brauner:
"This is another try at implementing multigrain timestamps. This time
with significant help from the timekeeping maintainers to reduce the
performance impact.
Thomas provided a base branch that contains the required timekeeping
interfaces for the VFS. It serves as the base for the multi-grain
timestamp work:
- Multigrain timestamps allow the kernel to use fine-grained
timestamps when an inode's attributes is being actively observed
via ->getattr(). With this support, it's possible for a file to get
a fine-grained timestamp, and another modified after it to get a
coarse-grained stamp that is earlier than the fine-grained time. If
this happens then the files can appear to have been modified in
reverse order, which breaks VFS ordering guarantees.
To prevent this, a floor value is maintained for multigrain
timestamps. Whenever a fine-grained timestamp is handed out, record
it, and when later coarse-grained stamps are handed out, ensure
they are not earlier than that value. If the coarse-grained
timestamp is earlier than the fine-grained floor, return the floor
value instead.
The timekeeper changes add a static singleton atomic64_t into
timekeeper.c that is used to keep track of the latest fine-grained
time ever handed out. This is tracked as a monotonic ktime_t value
to ensure that it isn't affected by clock jumps. Because it is
updated at different times than the rest of the timekeeper object,
the floor value is managed independently of the timekeeper via a
cmpxchg() operation, and sits on its own cacheline.
Two new public timekeeper interfaces are added:
(1) ktime_get_coarse_real_ts64_mg() fills a timespec64 with the
later of the coarse-grained clock and the floor time
(2) ktime_get_real_ts64_mg() gets the fine-grained clock value,
and tries to swap it into the floor. A timespec64 is filled
with the result.
- The VFS has always used coarse-grained timestamps when updating the
ctime and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing
filesystems to optimize away a lot metadata updates, down to around
1 per jiffy, even when a file is under heavy writes.
Unfortunately, this has always been an issue when we're exporting
via NFSv3, which relies on timestamps to validate caches. A lot of
changes can happen in a jiffy, so timestamps aren't sufficient to
help the client decide when to invalidate the cache. Even with
NFSv4, a lot of exported filesystems don't properly support a
change attribute and are subject to the same problems with
timestamp granularity. Other applications have similar issues with
timestamps (e.g backup applications).
If we were to always use fine-grained timestamps, that would
improve the situation, but that becomes rather expensive, as the
underlying filesystem would have to log a lot more metadata
updates.
This adds a way to only use fine-grained timestamps when they are
being actively queried. Use the (unused) top bit in
inode->i_ctime_nsec as a flag that indicates whether the current
timestamps have been queried via stat() or the like. When it's set,
we allow the kernel to use a fine-grained timestamp iff it's
necessary to make the ctime show a different value.
This solves the problem of being able to distinguish the timestamp
between updates, but introduces a new problem: it's now possible
for a file being changed to get a fine-grained timestamp. A file
that is altered just a bit later can then get a coarse-grained one
that appears older than the earlier fine-grained time. This
violates timestamp ordering guarantees.
This is where the earlier mentioned timkeeping interfaces help. A
global monotonic atomic64_t value is kept that acts as a timestamp
floor. When we go to stamp a file, we first get the latter of the
current floor value and the current coarse-grained time. If the
inode ctime hasn't been queried then we just attempt to stamp it
with that value.
If it has been queried, then first see whether the current coarse
time is later than the existing ctime. If it is, then we accept
that value. If it isn't, then we get a fine-grained time and try to
swap that into the global floor. Whether that succeeds or fails, we
take the resulting floor time, convert it to realtime and try to
swap that into the ctime.
We take the result of the ctime swap whether it succeeds or fails,
since either is just as valid.
Filesystems can opt into this by setting the FS_MGTIME fstype flag.
Others should be unaffected (other than being subject to the same
floor value as multigrain filesystems)"
* tag 'vfs-6.13.mgtime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: reduce pointer chasing in is_mgtime() test
tmpfs: add support for multigrain timestamps
btrfs: convert to multigrain timestamps
ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps
xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps
Documentation: add a new file documenting multigrain timestamps
fs: add percpu counters for significant multigrain timestamp events
fs: tracepoints around multigrain timestamp events
fs: handle delegated timestamps in setattr_copy_mgtime
timekeeping: Add percpu counter for tracking floor swap events
timekeeping: Add interfaces for handling timestamps with a floor value
fs: have setattr_copy handle multigrain timestamps appropriately
fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps